The Community Learning Disabilities Team on the Isle of Wight is recruiting a Support Worker to its Intensive Support Team. The job centres on supporting an allocated group of service users, helping them identify needs and assisting practitioners with assessing, planning and reviewing care plans. The post is permanent and part-time at 30.75 hours weekly, and includes accompanying service users to community venues and outpatient appointments. The Trust cannot offer Skilled Worker visa sponsorship, so applicants must have the right to work in the UK.
What the job involves
- Give time and support to an allocated group of service users to promote their safety and help them live in the community
- Help service users identify their needs and assist practitioners to assess, plan, implement and evaluate individual care plans
- Keep service users' needs central at all times, applying agreed values and skills to daily work
- Help practitioners deliver agreed standards of care to all service users
- Build rapport with service users, including working with them in community settings outside their home
- Work across boundaries of care and organisations, focusing on the direct needs of service users
- Answer the telephone and take messages, keeping information confidential and referring calls to qualified staff
- Monitor service users' progress, functioning and mental state to spot early signs of relapse and alert relevant staff
- Take part in risk assessment and risk management in line with the Risk Policy
- Attend outpatient appointments and clinical reviews with selected service users as required
- Encourage and help service users take part in leisure, social and recreational activities
- Support service users to engage with their agreed care plan and access appropriate services on a regular basis
What’s required
Qualifications
- Commitment to educational development appropriate to the role
Experience
- Experience of supporting people with a learning disability
- Understanding of problems relating to mental health conditions
Skills & knowledge
- Excellent communication skills
- Working well in a team
- Able to use a computer and confident learning new electronic systems
Checks & eligibility
- Access to own vehicle for work purposes, suitably insured
- Right to work in the UK at the time of application
Other
- Working with due regard for personal safety and health and safety requirements of the service
- Following the policies and procedures of the service
Nice to have
- Up-to-date awareness of developments in social and health care practice
- Knowledge or experience of positive behaviour plans
What’s offered
- Flexible working requests can be discussed as part of the interview process
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Contact Details:
The Methodist Church in Britain Recruitment Team
